DAMAGES WRIT

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30291, 18 November 1963, Page 15

DAMAGES WRIT

Woman “Wants Name Cleared” (N.Z.P_A.-Reuter— Copyright) LONDON, Nov. 16. Mrs Barbara Florence Brook, who has issued a writ for alleged slander against the Duke of Kent, last night said: “I am going on with it. "I don’t want the Duke’s money. I just want my name cleared,” she told reporters in her tiny bed-sitting-room in Paddington. London. Mrs Brook, who is in her sixties and is temporarily working as an employmentagency secretary, refused to outline the alleged slander by the 28-year-old Duke, who is now’ serving with his regiment in Hong Kong. Mrs Brook, a widow’, told reporters: “You will hear the story in Court I didn’t think it would cause all this fuss. But you must think J am a fool if you believe I will tell you the grounds. My next step is to make out a claim of damage ." Mrs Brook said she had never w-orked for the Royal household. She refused to say if she had ever met or spoken to the Duke or any member of the Royal Family Solicitors for the Duke said yesterday: “We have written to inform Mrs Brook twice that w’e would accept service of the writ But we have not received an answer.” Mrs Brook said last night that she had received a letter. “I have not been able to attend to it this week. 1 will do so next week." she Baid.